Kung Cho-yee

Sometimes elderly people would play dumb or pretend to be forgetful in order to avoid getting embarrassed or upsetting others by telling the truth. However, constant forgetfulness could be a symptom of early-stage dementia. In 2015,...

Back in the 1980s, we would often hear people in the workplace mock their underperforming or careless co-workers as “retards”. In those days the word “retard” was more of a term used to tease people who...

Since 2012, the United Nations has been commissioning academics to compile the World Happiness Report on a yearly basis, with each report being given a main theme. And this year’s main theme for the report is...

According to a recent study which discussed the sexual attitudes of young people aged between 15 and 27 in Hong Kong over the past 20 years, teenagers in our city, contrary to popular belief, appeared to be getting...

Since the end of the Second World War, some developed countries and regions saw a continuous rise in the median age of first marriage for both men and women in their societies. Denmark, Spain, the Czech...

The history of using cards to replace cash as an alternative payment tool dates back to 1930 when some department stores and oil firms in the United States issued their proprietary cards. Bank-issued credit cards came...

After decades of feminist movements in the West, women’s rights seem to have improved substantially. However, domestic violence against women remains a global phenomenon. According to a 2015 study by the United Nations on violence against...

There was a joke that went around back in the 1990s about Hong Kong’s police force, declaiming that perhaps there are more police officers in the city who have killed themselves with their own guns or...

According to a recent report published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), global foreign direct investment (FDI) rebounded in 2015, hitting its highest level since 2008. When it comes to FDI net...

Ever since the emergence of the knowledge-based economic model some 20 years ago, “innovation” has become the key to a successful economy and has touched almost every aspect of our daily lives. In 2007, the INSEAD...

Turkic (突厥) peoples, the predecessors of today’s Turks, Afghans, Azerbaijanis, Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Kyrgyzians, Tajiks, and the Uyghurs living in China’s northwestern province of Xinjiang, reigned supreme across Central Asia since the 5th century AD. Today their descendants...

In Hong Kong, being a private security guard is a pretty unique occupation. Back in the early days of the colonial period, private security guards, who were mainly Indians and Nepalese, were already entrusted with special...